About Us

Answers built on accuracy, innovation, and customer service

Rock River Laboratory partners with our customers to serve the living and growing needs of the agriculture and analysis industries. 

Through laboratory and data analysis of feedstuffs, soil, plant tissue, manure, and water, combined with expert data management and model development, we equip our customers with the tools and answers needed to make decisions for successful outcomes. 

Continually refining our expertise and growing our customer base over the last 48 years [and counting], Rock River Laboratory is supported by an exceptionally committed customer service team.

More than a lab

Over our rich history, Rock River Laboratory has made our customers the focus - whether retailers, farmers, industry influencers, associate labs, or garden enthusiasts. Progress for the benefit of those we serve guides our business's decisions and actions. As such, we've continued to build, test, and offer products and services that revolve around the end-user. 

Solid foundation for technological progress

Our roots lie in the agriculture industry, which embraces technology for the greater good of progress. This common goal is something in which we continually invest.

In 1976, Rock River Laboratory founder Don Meyer, his wife Karen, and his parents, Bill and Marge Meyer, set out with a goal to fulfill an agriculture industry need for quality, accurate soil analysis.

By 1979, feed and forage analysis was offered at Rock River Laboratory, and to help support this offering, the Near-Infrared (NIR) analysis of feedstuffs was incorporated in 1982 - making Rock River Laboratory the first agricultural laboratory to offer this new technology.

See more Rock River Laboratory firsts that have built this company on the timeline below. 

We are constantly diversifying our services into new areas of the agriculture field and the globe. Rock River Laboratory can be found in several locations across the US and internationally. Incorporating new technologies helps us consistanly dial-in accuracy across all locations. 

Our team

Our driven second generation of passionate, agriculture-rooted, and future-thinking team members ensure that Rock River Laboratory will be a sustained partner as agriculture continues to evolve. This family business includes members carrying deep scientific and agricultural knowledge and experience - a valuable combination.

Watermark of trust, growth, and scientific roots

The Fibonacci spiral, as seen in our logo, is a numerical sequence that can be witnessed within nature from a plant’s leaf arrangements to the bracts of a pinecone. The seedling, also seen in our logo, is a symbol of growth and renewal, and the living things that all of us in the agriculture industry work so hard to keep flourishing every day. We've made our logo a symbol of our values and our commitment to trustworthy service of the agriculture industry and we stand behind the work and results that don it.